Garment-hanger.



PAfIBN-TED MAR. 12, 1907. J. M. STEIN. GARMENT HANGER.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 7, 1906.

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JACOB MOSES STEIN, OF WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

GARMENT-HANGER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Eatented March 12, 1907.

' Application filed May 7,1906. Serial No. 315,614.

To a, whom, it minty concern.-

Be it known that I, JACOB Mosns STEIN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Washington, in the District of Columbia, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Garment-Hangers, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to garment-hangers.

One object of the invention is to provide a hanger of the foldable variety.

Another object resides in the provision of a light, strong, inexpensive, durable, and simple device for the hanging or support of coats or other garments.

With the above and other objects in view the present invention consists in the combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter referred to, shown in the accompanying drawings, and more particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of one embodiment of my invention. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal sectional view. Fig. 3 is a horizontal transverse section on the line a a of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a side view of the hanger when folded. Fig. 5 is a modified form of hinge connection. Fig. 6 is a perspective view of another form of my invention, illustrating the same partly folded, the dotted lines showing the position of the sus pending-hook after assuming its locking posi tion. 7

Referring now to.the accompanying drawings, and more particularly to Figs. 1 to 5, inclusive, there is shown a foldable hanger composed, preferably, of sheet metal, although it is obvious that it may be composed of wood. However, assuming that the hanger is composed of sheet metal, the reference characters 1 and 2 indicate arms, each being preferably channel-shaped, resulting in a top face 3 and front and rear faces 4 and 5. At the inner end of each arm the upper or top .face is inclined upwardly, as at 6, for a purpose presently explained, and each arm at its inner end has its front and rear faces 4 and 5 bent at a right angle to the plane of said faces to overlap and form a broad flat abutting face 7, for a purpose hereinafter set forth. The upper face of the arm 1 is reduced and continued beyond the abutting face 7 thereof and bent to form an ear 8, de-

. signed to fit between the spaced ears 9 of the arm 2 and in alinement therewith to receive the pintle portion 10 of the suspending-hook 11. The leg of the suspending-hook 11 may be twisted or bent to dispose the bill 13 thereof in a plane parallel with the plane of the front and rear faces of the hanger. If preferred, the hinge connection between the arms may be formed by the plates 14 and 15, having the cars 16 and 17, respectively, as

shown in Fig. 5. These plates 14 and may be welded or otherwise secured to the top faces of the respective arms 1 and 2.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the inner end of each arm is enlarged from bottom to top and that the top face thereof tapers upwardly to meet the corresponding abutting face 7 and that at the point of meeting of the top and the abutting meeting faces the arms are hingedly connected together in direct contradistinction to a pivoted or hinge connection at the bottom or side of the abutting ends, thereby obviating the use of separate fastening means to prevent accidental folding of the hanger. In the use of the present hanger the abutting faces of the arms limit their downward movement with respect to each other, and as soon as the suspendinghook is engaged with a supportingdiook, nail, or the like (not shown) regardless of the position of the arms the latter fall downwardly, each presenting its abutting face to the abutting face of the cooperating arm. These abutting faces, therefore, limit the downward movement of the arms with respect to each other, they lyin normally in engagement with each other throughout their entire surface, effecting a broad abutting engagement. When the arms are in their normal working position, they depend somewhat with respect to the intermediate projection formed by the enlarged inner ends of the arms, whose outer sides taper downward and support the garment out of contact with the suspendinghook. It will be seen that the suspendinghook forms part of the hinge and that when the hanger is folded the suspending-hook lies between the arms. It will also be seen that the arms depend upon the suspendinghook to prevent folding thereof.

In Fig. 6 there is shown a modified form of foldable hanger, including arms 18 and 19, having abutting faces 20 and 2 1, respectively. Secured to the abutting face 20 is a hingeplate 22, having spaced ears lying within the marginal recess 24 of the arm 18, with another ear 25 upon the opposite side of the hinge-plate lying within said marginal recess 2 1. Secured upon the meeting face of the arm 19 is a hinge-plate 26, having an ear 27 for engagement between and in alinement with the spaced ears 23 to receive a portion of the suspending-hook 28 to form a pintle. This second hinge-plate 26 has an ear 29 upon its edge opposite its ear 27, which is mounted within the marginal recess 30 and which is designed to aline with the aforesaid ear 25 of the plate 22, both cars 29 and 25 being adapted to slidably receive the portion 31 ot the suspending-hook to lock the arms against folding. it will thus be understood that in this modified form of the invention the suspending-hook serves as the hinge-pintle and also as means to lock the hanger against folding action. To fold this modified form of hanger, the suspending-hook should be forced to the position shown infull lines in Fig. 6, when the ears 25 and 29 may be brought into alinement with each other, when an upward pull upon the suspendinghook with respect to the arms will bring the locking portion 81 into the alining ears 29 and 25, and thereby lock the arms against -folding. The suspending-hook thus has free sliding movement with respect to the hingeplates; but when the hook is engaged upon a supporting-nail or the like (not shown) the weight of the arms will pull down upon the hook and prevent the unlocking thereof and hold the hanger in proper condition for the support of coats or other garments. This having their inner ends abutting, the arms being hingedly connected at their inner ends, and a suspending-hook forming the pintle of the hinge, the arms cooperating with the suspending-hook to hold the arms normally in unfolded position.

2. A garment-hanger comprising arms having their inner ends abutting and hingedly connected together, and a suspendinghook forming the pintle of the hinge, the arms depending upon the suspending-hook to hold them in unfolded position.

3. A garment-hanger comprising arms having their inner ends abutting and hingedly connected together at their upper surfaces, and a suspending-hook having a portion serving as the pintle of the hinge, the hook having movement independently of the arms to lock them together the arms depending upon the suspending-hook to hold them in unfolded position.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JACOB MOSES STEIN.

Witnesses:

S F. EBERBAGH, Jaoon 1. SnArPmU. 

